Iranians Watch Hopefully for a Détente

Iranians anxiously watched the United Nations General Assembly live on television, with many hoping their leadership would begin a diplomatic settlement between U.S. and Iran that would ease tensions and improve their lives.

Inside and outside Iran, they clung to their televisions on Tuesday to follow President Hasan Rouhani's maiden U.N speech and that of his American counterpart Barack Obama, feverishly filling social media with...